Food & Nutrition

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Many of us overeat, as reflected in rising BMIs. It is a problem quickly solved theoretically by calorie reduction, although in practice it is a tougher problem.

Heard the one about fruit being unhealthy because it has much higher sugar levels than it did in the good ol’ days?

Most popular news stories about diet soda follow a predictable formula that goes as follows.

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The headline is not exaggeration or hyperbole. Scientific American just ran an article claiming that vegetables are becoming like sugary snacks and are toxic. And that's not even the worst part.

Having jumped all the appropriate FDA hurdles to ensure safety, the Impossible Burger in its uncooked form is coming to supermarket shelves this fall.

Nutrition facts labeling is changing: coming soon to a product label near you there will be a new line of information telling you how much of the total su

"Consumers, however, also resist diet change due to reasons such as taste preferences and traditions, a lack of awareness about the link between climate change and food consumption or ideological beliefs about relations between humans

It's a new week, and a new dietary study. This is from the Lancet, and it is a two-year randomized control trial of calorie restriction.